When PR agencies go into overdrive for a company on a beautiful summer weekend, it often means that there’s a deal getting done.

Except that’s not what happened this weekend, not with Demoulas Super Markets and the feuding family members who are fighting over the Tewksbury retailer’s future.

Exiled chief executive Arthur T. Demoulas and his side were apparently still working to hammer out a deal with in-control Arthur S. Demoulas and his side of the family to buy out the Arthur S. side and take full control of the company’s 71-store Market Basket chain. But there wasn't a lot of actual news that could be gleaned from the barrage of press statements that we’ve seen in the past three days.

Let’s go back to late Friday afternoon. This, of course, was one day after thousands of part-time Market Basket employees were told they would be out of work come Monday, that the lost business during the chaos caused by this spat meant that there wasn’t enough revenue to pay most part-timers anything. Just don’t call them layoffs, one of Market Basket’s new co-CEOs told the store managers, even though that’s exactly what they felt like the people who would be out of work.

Late in the day on Friday, three independent directors on the seven-member board said they were announcing a proposal to get Market Basket employees back to work. They didn’t talk much about the proposal in this “announcement” other than to say that they would be willing to bring back Arthur T. and his entire management team, with a caveat that Arthur T. would still report to the new management instead of coming back as CEO, with a goal of getting Market Basket back into the business of selling food again. Arthur T., the three directors said, had not yet responded to this offer. But there were no details about the offer, nor any explanation about where the two directors aligned with the Arthur S. side stood on the issue. And there was no mention of what would happen to Arthur T. and his top managers if the Arthur S. side decided to sell their 50.5-percent stake to a buyer other than Arthur T.

Then Arthur T.’s side issued its press release, calling the previous announcement disingenuous because the three independent directors were appointed by the Arthur S. side of the family and because Arthur T. has offered in writing several times to bring back his entire management team to stabilize the company, and each offer was rejected. Arthur T.’s press release, sent through a spokeswoman, said the proposal from the three directors simply represented an attempt to prep the company for sale to another bidder.

Then on Saturday the independent directors fought back, accusing Arthur T. of holding employees and customers hostage to gain a negotiating advantage in the talks.

By Saturday night, it was the Arthur S. side’s turn to officially weigh in. Their side, technically known as the “Class A” shareholders, issued its own statement, saying the Arthur T. side — the “Class B” shareholders — was failing to engage in good faith efforts to make a deal happen. The Class A shareholders said they’ve been willing to sell their majority interest to the Class B side for the price proposed by Arthur T., but now might be forced to consider other options.

Then Arthur T.’s spokeswoman offered another statement tonight (Sunday), on Arthur T.’s behalf. This statement called for an end to this “war of press releases.” (Good luck with that.) In that statement, the Arthur T. side said it’s willing to buy the 50.5-percent stake at a valuation that was based on “pre-crisis” revenue flow, and that his offers have been rejected not because of price but with counterproposals laden with onerous terms.

So what do we know after all of this back and forth? Despite all the talk of multiple “alternatives” to Arthur T.’s bid, it appears that both the Arthur S. side and Arthur T. side are still working to get a deal done between the two family factions and that the biggest impasse isn't the price, as both sides seem to have a number in mind that they could live with. But with the decades of bad blood, it’s not that surprising that what’s getting in the way of a deal has little to do with the actual price that would be paid.